{"id":11473,"date":"2020-09-11T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T18:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fhug.org.uk\/kb\/?post_type=kb_article&#038;p=11473"},"modified":"2025-04-14T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:27:10","slug":"ancestral-sources-migration-guide","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/kb-article\/ancestral-sources-migration-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Sources Migration Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>It is becoming likely that someday you will update Windows or buy a new PC and need to re-install Ancestral Sources (AS).<\/p>\n<p>As well as installing\u00a0AS, all\u00a0Backups,\u00a0Logs,\u00a0Settings,\u00a0Options, and\u00a0Templates\u00a0will need to be migrated.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>These few steps define how to migrate from an old PC to a new PC.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On both PC ensure the latest version of AS is installed.<\/li>\n<li>On both PC use <em>Tools &gt; Options&#8230;<\/em> in AS and note the location of the three AS Folders.<\/li>\n<li>Close AS on both PC.<\/li>\n<li>Copy the AS Folders from old PC to new PC using Windows\/File Explorer via some intermediate storage such as a USB pen drive memory stick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use a similar technique, but with the steps in a different order, to migrate from an old Windows version to a new Windows version on the same PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","fh_version":[13,14,15,739],"skill_level":[17,16],"topic":[90,736],"class_list":["post-11473","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","fh_version-v4","fh_version-v5","fh_version-v6","fh_version-v7","skill_level-intermediate","skill_level-newcomer","topic-reinstalling-or-migrating-to-a-different-pc","topic-using-ancestral-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/11473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fh_version","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fh_version?post=11473"},{"taxonomy":"skill_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/skill_level?post=11473"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=11473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}